Crayon-Text version 1 (SCM)

[Rod]

Font Face is "URW Gothic L Semi-Bold"





Seems to need some distortion perhaps? It looks too perfect for hand drawn crayon.

Any ideas?

[Erisian]

Try it on a hand script font of some kind Rod. It might be easier to see what needs doing if it looks like scrawl.

[Rod]

I believe i have it finished.
Here is text at 1000x400 pixels



Here is text at 700x250



Script has 2 values
color - your crayon color
Messiness - values range from 1-5

Will be located at Script-Fu>Text Effects>Crayon Text

Script is attached

crayon-text_RD-v1.0.scm

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Please let me know what could be fixed or changed.
Thanks!

Enjoy!

[Rod]

Another font face example "URW Palladio L Bold Italic"



I think i captured the effect pretty well.

[Rod]

One for Molly.

[ZWard117]

How about an alpha to logo addition? It would useful for creating that little kid drawn picture effect

[Erisian]

That is really good Rod.

[Oregonian]

I'm going to have to really study that Text tool. I wanted to put the little guy on a separate layer. I put a transparent layer on top of the first text, it wouldn't let me add a separate text layer. It kept bring up the text editor.

Made a new image to make the little guy. :\

Fun script, Rod.



Although I didn't need to, I used a crayon font from dafont.
http://www.dafont.com/dk-crayon-crumble.font

[Rod]

How about an alpha to logo addition? It would useful for creating that little kid drawn picture effect

You can already with this script.
Just draw out your picture (on separate layers if you want dif colors) like a brown tree and green shrubbery.
Maybe a blue sky?The script just needs an alpha area on the layer.So if you paint out a black cloud and run the script and select white, it will color the cloud white but it doesn't look that great on a white bg. (barely visible)
If you paint out a tree trunk on a transparent layer it will paint the tree trunk the color you have chosen...and so on.
It was made primarily for text as it was needed in the past and i couldn't find one free commercial use type font face out there.

If you use black it will pick itself and delete it's own color so black doesn't work at the moment.
I am working on that part of the script now.White works but it is barely visible.

The script breaks the colors into very tiny pieces of color with a lot of alpha area.So it looks best on a white bg.
I will keep working on it and try to get something better to work with.
Maybe a color book script.

Thanks for the kind comments everyone.

[AnMal]

rods crayon text.png (61.99 KiB) Viewed 5270 times

i really liked playing with the crayon effect, it will make some really nice stuff.

[pirate541]

this is what i get when i try it :/

[saulgoode]

Pirate, Rod's script is apparently designed to only work with GIMP version 2.8 or later.

[pirate541]

saul,
ok thank you
i'm still with 2.6
Appreciate the heads up

[2-ton]

great script...and everyone's test look really good!

[Rod]

Sorry about that Pirate i do not have gimp-2.6 installed right at this time.
For now you should be able to change the two lines that read -

Code:

(gimp-image-select-item image 0 layer)

to -

Code:

(gimp-selection-layer-alpha image 0 layer)

I think that's correct.
Then it should run ok after that.

[pirate541]

hi Rod
Thank you for replying.
When i open the codes with notepad,
(gimp-image-select-item image 0 layer) is in there 4 times,not twice.
I tried to change all 4 and when i saved it again,the icon was not showing an scm file anymore,it just showed Gimp logo .I know ,as usual,that I am doing something wrong,but I don't know what

[Rod]

Pirate can you try this one for me?

Make sure you remove the other one first.

crayon-text_gimp-2.6_RD-v1.0.scm

[pirate541]

Rod,
I get this now

[Erisian]

I tested it on 2.6.11.

[Erisian]

At least I got a block of crayon even though I lost the text. You're getting there Rod.